Rest In Peace

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:54 am

Oh MAN Dick that is so bad!
Rip to Mike and hope and good vibes to the family!!!!

Kinetik V · Post by **Kinetik V** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:00 am

Nevada State Trooper Kara M. Kelly-Borgognone - 33.

I've had some not so pleasant encounters with law enforcement over the years, but I've also had some damn good ones with officers that were consummate professionals, the epitome of class through and through. Kara is one of the latter. I encountered her on two separate occasions while in Nevada and both times I was the one that stopped her! I was shocked and saddened to learn that she was critically injured in a car accident Monday night....and once her organs are transplanted she will be taken off life support.

Nevada, and the ranks of Law Enforcement nationwide are losing a damn good officer with Kara's passing. I am thankful to have met her, and I am grateful for her assistance when it was critically needed.

Rest in Peace Kara, rest in peace.

MozyBonz · Post by **MozyBonz** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:05 am

Condolences..... R.I.P. Mike

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:43 am

Paiute elder Frank Winnemucca dies

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic ... 8802260342

MozyBonz · Post by **MozyBonz** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:50 am

ibdave wrote:Paiute elder Frank Winnemucca dies

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic ... 2260[i]342

starts to ghost dance

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:17 pm

He's not dead yet, but...

Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer, for which there is no cure and only a 1 in 20 chance of survival.

Fuck Cancer.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:02 am

FUCK CANCER

Man o man, I had the biggest crush on him!

And then he made that movie Road house, where he slams Kelly Lynch
against the wall and bangs the crazy outa her...drool

And then people magazine did that spread of him where the head of his dick is peeking out for the whole world to see...
ya...hot baby...he is a hotty.

FUCK CANCER!

MozyBonz · Post by **MozyBonz** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:38 pm

R.I.P John Shoemaker

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=39320

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:05 pm

Since no one else will post him, I was never much into it, but the fact remains, a major cultural figure is gone.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:25 pm

"Article Not Found."

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:52 am

here, Fishie- allow me.

R.I.P. Gary Gygax

Proud RPG player L-O-O-N-G before W.O.W., and even before polyhedral dice were easy to find- Hard to believe that three poorly-bound booklets could have opened so many interdimensional portals. D&D was a perfect nutritional environment in which to grow a healthy, creative mind. Plus, it's how I first met Dragonfly Jafe! No, I do NOT look like Comic Book Guy (very much...HE has a ponytail.) OR worship Satan, you Worried Moms Of America.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:03 am

Finally got to Ezekiel Hernandez' gravesite in Redford Texas on the Rio Grande. He was killed in May of 1997 by marine snipers thinking he was a drug smuggler. He was just a poor 18 year old shepherd boy. The town is still sad about it. And now I'm learning that there was a masacre nearby of Mexican villagers, thought to be raiders, by white vigilante army guys in the early 20th century.

Post by **AntiM** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:59 pm

Arthur C. Clarke

"It's full of stars..."

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:34 pm

He was an amazing person much like Asimov.

An incredible thinker and writer!

Now to dig up all those sequels I have wanted to read.

Bye Arthur hope you enjoy your journey that is just starting!

AIIZ

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:52 pm

My friend Paul Swendsen did 12 out of 14 of Arthur C. Clarke's book covers.
You can see the work he did for Arthur C. Clarke here.
I just talked with Paul today and he is ok but somewhat sad. He and Arthur C. Clarke were close friends.

Rest in peace Arthur C. Clarke!

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:48 pm

DVD Burner wrote:My friend Paul Swendsen did 12 out of 14 of Arthur C. Clarke's book covers.
You can see the work he did for Arthur C. Clarke here.
I just talked with Paul today and he is ok but somewhat sad. He and Arthur C. Clarke were close friends.

Rest in peace Arthur C. Clarke!

Arthur vision of extraterrestrials was alway positive much like mine. Many of his theoretical thoughts were very similar to my views, life form based on something different then our and that life can exist at the melting point of other gaseous elements like water. The universe is full of many big bangs, not just one big one but others happening along side ours. Some are even happening now. We just can see them and never will. they are just to far away. Worlds within worlds. He was working on dark matter as a place where our souls or spirits live. It's were bowman and HAL exist now.

If I was paul I would be very sad and I am!

But Hey they're casting for the Hobit. Can't wait, the movies have been so dull lately! Time for something light and fun. Can't wait, Yep, can't wait

AIIZ

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:33 am

Moses is Dead as well as a bad actor

He will forever in the planet of the apes the original and as a ape in the remake

bye bye Charlie Heston

thirt33n · Post by **thirt33n** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:52 am

did he take the NRA with him? no....

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:27 pm

When I heard that Heston was ill with Alzheimer's, I sent a letter to him care of the NRA, thanking him for the inspiration his early bible films were to me as a kid growing up. I also mentioned that though I disagreed with many of his conservative views, I chose to focus on the good he had achieved with those films. I got a kind thank you reply from the NRA. The NRA, though you may disagree with some or many of its positions is making strides in taking a firm stand on conservation and wilderness protection.

I will miss Moses and Ben Hur! God Bless You Heston

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 4:01 pm

Heston went from Moses to being hunted by Apes, to supporting civil rights to support the constitutional right to arm bears, to playing an Ape (He especially demanded that his ape be a white one? I guess you can support civil rights and still be a race supremist) Then playing Josef Mengele: the monster Nazi Doctor!

Seems the Alzheimer decay started a while back and slowly affected his character.

At least he forgot how really bad an actor he really was and I'm sure it was a good thing.

I never really like him as an actor especially as Moses, but then I never really believed in Moses. Just a story like Xenu from space or that human did not evolve from apes- we evolved from heston. And we are better actors because of him.

AIIZ

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:53 am

Albert Hofmann, 102

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:11 am

Yeah, I just found the article on Digg.com.
Gooooood, long, purposeful life. Nothing to mourn here. A truly good life and death.
RIP and say "hello" to Xochipilli for me

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:32 pm

I guess I will spend the weekend in an LSD-induced coma to commemorate the man.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:43 pm

Share?

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:58 pm

hmmm?!

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:06 pm

AntiM wrote:Albert Hofmann, 102

"Bike" (Pink Floyd)

I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I've got a cloak
It's a bit of a joke
There's a tear up the front
It's red and black
I've had it for months
If you think it could look good
Then I guess it should

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I know a mouse
And he hasn't got a house
I don't know why
I call him Gerald
He's getting rather old
But he's a good mouse

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I've got a clan of gingerbread men
Here a man
There a man
Lots of gingerbread men
Take a couple if you wish
They're on the dish

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I know a room full of musical tunes
Some rhyme
Some ching
Most of them are clockwork
Let's go into the other room and make them work

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Thu May 08, 2008 10:03 pm

Country great Eddy Arnold. May15, 1918 to May8, 2008

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri May 09, 2008 10:14 am

Just ten days short of his 90th birthday.

I hate when that happens.

erri2000 · Post by **erri2000** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:48 am

Irena Sendler
Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:28 am

Harvey Korman, 81; versatile Emmy-winning comedian

http://www.latimes.com/news/printeditio ... 3599.story

By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 30, 2008

Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described "luminous second banana" for a decade on television's "The Carol Burnett Show" and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 81.

Korman, who had undergone several major operations, died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center of complications from an abdominal aortic aneurysm that ruptured four months ago, his daughter, Kate Korman, told The Times.

With a knack for physical humor and oddball accents, Korman was a master sketch comic who did his best-known work on Burnett's variety show beginning in 1967 in an ensemble that included Tim Conway.

"It's a 45-year friendship," Conway said. "It was a great ride; we worked together probably 30 years, plus the Burnett show, which was about as good as it gets."

Brooks called Korman "a major, major talent, and he could have very easily have done Shakespearean drama. That's how gifted and talented Harvey was. . . . I loved working with him."

Conway said Korman had "a complete understanding of comedy and comedy timing."

On the Burnett show, which steadfastly stayed in television's top 10 during its run, Korman showcased his versatility -- playing a robust Yiddish matron in one skit, then reappearing as a comic Rhett Butler while sending up "Gone With the Wind" with the show's star.

He scored as the big-bosomed Mother Marcus and hapless Ed, who was a member of the incredibly dysfunctional "Mama's Family," one of the more popular skits that became a series in the 1980s.

"Give me something bizarre to play, or put me in a dress and I'm fine," Korman jokingly said in a 2005 Chicago Sun-Times interview.

Korman and Conway developed an uncanny rapport that made them arguably one of television's most lethal comic teams; Conway's on-camera ad-libs often made Korman crack up; producers wisely kept them in the show.

For about eight years, until late last December, the pair toured the country in a stage show that, more than anything, was a homage to their years with Burnett. They performed about 120 shows a year.

"I don't know whether either one of us was the straight man," Conway said. "The most important thing in comedy when you're working together is for one guy to know when to shut up. And we both knew when to shut up; quiet show, actually."

One of their favorite routines from the Burnett show was the dentist sketch, "where I kind of anesthetize my entire body with Novocain" while trying to fill Korman's teeth, Conway told The Times on Thursday.

"They play it at all the dental schools, as kind of an introduction on how not to do it," Conway said.

In an interview several years ago with the Palm Beach Post, Conway said of the versatile cast that included Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner, "The five of us were the New York Yankees of our time."

With more than 1,000 sketches behind him, Korman left the Burnett show after 10 years. He was 50.

"It was now or never, and if ever I planned to expand my career beyond sketch work, I'd better do it now," he said at the time, according to a 1990 Toronto Star story.

ABC had promised him his own comedy series, but "I kept making pilots . . . until everybody said, 'Get outta here, for God's sake. Nothing's working,' " Korman told United Press International in 1993.

From 1983 to 1985, he appeared in "Mama's Family," the NBC sitcom that featured a number of Burnett alumni, including Lawrence and Burnett, who made a number of guest appearances.

Korman made more than 30 films, including four comedies directed by Brooks, who first discovered him when his wife, the late Anne Bancroft, singled Korman out on "The Carol Burnett Show."

"My wife said, 'You've got to see this guy. They're doing the Andrews Sisters [in a sketch] and this Harvey Korman is the best of the bunch.' . . . Harvey was so funny. When I was putting together 'Blazing Saddles,' I just knew he was a natural" for the role of Hedley Lamarr in the 1974 Western satire.

"I had some real problems working with Harvey," Brooks told The Times on Thursday. "I used to look past his eyes. . . . If our eyes met, that's the end of the take. We would break up."

Brooks also cast Korman in "High Anxiety" (1977), "History of the World -- Part 1" (1981) and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (1995).

Korman's other films included "Gypsy" (1962), "Herbie Goes Bananas" (1980), "Trail of the Pink Panther" (1982) and "Curse of the Pink Panther" (1983). In the 1978 television movie "Bud and Lou" he played straight man Bud Abbott to Buddy Hackett's Lou Costello.

Harvey Herschel Korman was born Feb. 15, 1927, in Chicago to Cyril and Ellen Korman. He started acting in school plays in kindergarten and turned professional at 12, when a local radio station signed him.

After serving in the Navy during World War II, he enrolled in drama school in New York and tried to make it on Broadway but spent the better part of a decade waiting tables and pumping gas, he later recalled.

In the early 1960s, Korman moved to Hollywood and began working regularly on "The Danny Kaye Show" in 1964 and stayed with the musical-variety show until the end of its three-year run. Then came the Burnett show.

He would go on to guest-star in dozens of television shows and work as a voice actor until 2001.

Offstage, Korman professed to being a determinedly unfunny person "who can't tell a joke if my life depended upon it," but his daughter Kate disagreed: "He was probably funnier in real life."

In addition to Kate, Korman is survived by his wife, Deborah; three other children, Laura, Maria and Chris; and three grandchildren.

Services will be private.

[email protected]

Times staff writer Dennis McLellan contributed to this report.

Rest In Peace

So Long Harvey Korman